1912_004 Heber J Grant to David Eccles_Personal

To the Family of the late David Eccles.
Inasmuch as I did not have the chance to pay ray tribute of respect to your husband and father at his funeral, I have much pleasure in sitting down and writing a number of items of personal experience in connection with ray association with him.
These items are to his credit and I feel sure will be prized by you and therefore I am more than pleased to take the time to write them. First and of most importance he believed the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was ever willing and anxious to be known as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He has one of the most remarkable minds of any man I have ever met. His wonderful capacity for details and to grasp and comprehend any proposition placed before hin gave him an influence among men wherever he mingled with then. He commanded the attention and respect of men great and small. In bringing honor to himself by his wonderful mind and the living of an honorable life, inasmuch as

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To the Family of the late David Eccles.
Inasmuch as I did not have the chance to pay ray tribute of respect to your husband and father at his funeral, I have much pleasure in sitting down and writing a number of items of personal experience in connection with ray association with him.
These items are to his credit and I feel sure will be prized by you and therefore I am more than pleased to take the time to write them. First and of most importance he believed the Gospel of Jesus Christ and was ever willing and anxious to be known as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He has one of the most remarkable minds of any man I have ever met. His wonderful capacity for details and to grasp and comprehend any proposition placed before hin gave him an influence among men wherever he mingled with then. He commanded the attention and respect of men great and small. In bringing honor to himself by his wonderful mind and the living of an honorable life, inasmuch as